Aston Villa v Newcastle United Post-Match Thread

[BigNormfromEastLancs]

 Bent needs to f**k off elsewhere if he thinks anything is remotely funny at Villa Park. No points and in the bottom 3. Not sure if we have the time to make any decent signing even if money was made available. Never felt so depressed about Villa. Resigned to life outside the Premier League next season. Humiliation just gets worse and worse! Feel anxious......again!

[DB]

For the first time I can remember I am resigned that our great club will be relegated. Thank you Lambert, thank you Lerner. Bright future....no future.

[achilles]

I never expected Villa to win and therefore why should I get annoyed, I am past caring any more, its all very, very inevitable and predictable!

[eastie]

Lambert's mistakes with the selection and formation were absolutely shocking, and that's what cost us that one.

Totally agree- game eas lost in the 1st half shambles- better 2nd half but games last 90 minutes not 45!

[Somniloquism]

That Football League Show makes ITV's FA Cup Highlights seem satisfying. 10 seconds for most Villa games followed by caveman Claridge mumbling nonsense will be hard to bear. Let's hope we only have to watch it for one season.

Nah, they use the same show to cover League one as well.

[danlanza]

I don't know what to do now. Go to bed, stay up posting guff on here, watch crap on tele, have a beer, listen to some more Napalm Death?

I feel numb, as if we've been relegated today.

Beer and Napalm Death, loud as fuck.

Fuck it why not

It will make you feel better mate.

[mattjpa]

The saddest thing is I don't feel gutted anymore.

I'm resigned to the fact. Once you reach this point the rest is easy

[Phil from the upper holte]

I don't know what to do now. Go to bed, stay up posting guff on here, watch crap on tele, have a beer, listen to some more Napalm Death?

I feel numb, as if we've been relegated today.

Beer and Napalm Death, loud as fuck.

Fuck it why not

Count me in, I'll bring my peel sessions with you suffer on, if you'll have me?

[onje_villa]

Looking around at the teams near us.

Wigan are beginning to fight and have been here before.
Newcastle are only going one way by the looks of it with all their new players.
QPR, certainly improving.
Even Reading have shown fight recently.

It's extremely worrying.

[Somniloquism]

Lambert's mistakes with the selection and formation were absolutely shocking, and that's what cost us that one.

Totally agree- game eas lost in the 1st half shambles- better 2nd half but games last 90 minutes not 45!

TBH, If we had that formation out in the first half and gone in 1 or 2 up, second half would have been shit instead and cost us the points.

[Steve R]

Absolute stupidity with tactics in the fist half. We were asking to get striped.

Surely in the second half we played 4-3-3/4-5-1 with Gabby and Weimann out wide, rather than 4-4-2. It may have been the dodgy stream I wasn't watching.

We played very well after the half time change. That's the real annoying thing. We lost three points to a team we could have wiped the floor with had we started with the right tactics.

If we dump 3 at the back and play with the same purpose and threat we had in minutes 45-70 we stand a very good chance of staying up. Especially if we actually get a decent midfielder or two in place in the next couple of days.

The only criticism I could have of the second 45 was that we resorted to loading it into the box a bit early.

The tackle on Weimann should have been a penalty. What a difference that would have made.

[ROBBO]

Lamberts inability to get team selections right is turning me off persisting with him although i do agree that the owner not prepared to fund decent players is part of his problem. The argument that if we go down he is the manager to get us back up is silly because we have an owner that won't pay big money anymore so we would just get relegated again.

[ez]

Between them, messrs Houllier, McLeish and Lambert are gradually weening me off football

[ktvillan]

Lerner has left us. This idea of us losing loads of money if we're relegated is not so simple. Most of the Sky money goes on wages. Go into the Championship, lose the wages and its much the same if you're just worried about the money. And in truth, much as it makes me really angry, another bit of me thinks that he did put in £200,000,000 into the club and there has to come a time when you say bollocks to it, tattoo on your ankle or not.

Lerner is so stupid, he needs protecting from himself.

I used to think he was a well meaning idiot, but now I don't even think he's well-meaning.

It takes a special type of moron to spend £200m getting us *exactly* where we were when Doug sold up.

Bravo, Lerner, bravo.

Yep it's a pretty spectacular failure - I wonder how much he spent to keep the Brown's mediocre for 10 years as well.  That's what you get when you put your mates in key positions, regardless of whether they have  a clue what they are doing or not.

[Nev]

The most damning thing for the manager is the avalanche of fans, pundits and journalists queueing up to point out his glaring tactical errors. From withdrawing Zog at Sandwell, the crazy gung ho approach with half an hour left last week and the catastrophic selection in the first half tonight.

Make no mistake, the blame will fall at Lamberts feet for relegation.